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<blockquote data-quote="Dominiccc" data-source="post: 1291276" data-attributes="member: 155249">The small BIOS coin batteries in my&nbsp; 2 devices died years ago. I dont think the battery maintains any data essential to boot the device. The drive on my first one failed a couple of years ago. It showed up in BIOS as being only 8GB in size. I spent ages mucking about to try and get some life out of it running Windows again but gave up in the end. Shame as it was a very very low power device that run remarkably well for what it was.I have a second unit that I recently messed up by being careless with a backup/restore test but the emmc drive hardware was still OK. I gave up trying to recover this device with a Windows install usb stick as I had trouble finding the required drivers and there wasn't enough space on the drive to reinstall from scratch. I wasn't able to persuade the reinstall process to overcome this very small drive limitation. I suspect a better person might!Sorry I cant help further with your question regarding data recovery. If the emmc is fried I doubt that you will get anything out even if you could remove it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dominiccc, post: 1291276, member: 155249"] The small BIOS coin batteries in my 2 devices died years ago. I dont think the battery maintains any data essential to boot the device. The drive on my first one failed a couple of years ago. It showed up in BIOS as being only 8GB in size. I spent ages mucking about to try and get some life out of it running Windows again but gave up in the end. Shame as it was a very very low power device that run remarkably well for what it was. I have a second unit that I recently messed up by being careless with a backup/restore test but the emmc drive hardware was still OK. I gave up trying to recover this device with a Windows install usb stick as I had trouble finding the required drivers and there wasn't enough space on the drive to reinstall from scratch. I wasn't able to persuade the reinstall process to overcome this very small drive limitation. I suspect a better person might! Sorry I cant help further with your question regarding data recovery. If the emmc is fried I doubt that you will get anything out even if you could remove it. [/QUOTE]

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